Press Release
Kukuk Box GmbH Receives the Silver A' Design Award for Kukuk Box Mobile Playground in Playground Equipment, Play Structures and Public Park Design
Kukuk Box GmbH recognized for playground equipment, play structures and public park design by the international grand jury of the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 20, 2023 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Kukuk Box Mobile Playground by Kukuk Box GmbH has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Playground Equipment, Play Structures and Public Park Design category. The result belongs to the 2022 - 2023 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
More About Kukuk Box Mobile Playground
Brought by truck, unfolded, swung and set up - the new playground is ready! KuKuk Box is a new category of extraordinary public playgrounds for children. Made of shipping containers, natural wood and stainless steel, it creates a magical space that invites children to climb, swing, jump and balance. The new look is a perfect combination of industrial design and traditional craftsmanship that brings fun and joy to a new generation, mobile and trendy.
Award Record
With this recognition, Kukuk Box GmbH is a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Playground Equipment, Play Structures and Public Park Design Award
The A' Playground Design Award is an international industrial design competition recognizing good playground designs by best playground manufacturers worldwide. The competition is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to playground equipment designers, play structure engineers, public park planners and landscape architects from all countries. Entries typically include swing sets, slides, climbing structures, seesaws, merry-go-rounds and sandboxes. Awarded playground equipment designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/playground
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission to advance society through good design by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, the upload of a work and the preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/151391
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/151391
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!151391
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/332276
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://www.kukuk-box.com
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Kukuk Box Mobile Playground
- Function
- Mobile Playground
- Category
- Playground Equipment, Play Structures and Public Park Design
- Discipline
- Industrial Design
- Industry
- Kids and Architecture
- Colors
- Lavender, Silver, Gainsboro, Peru and Saddle Brown
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Kukuk Box GmbH
- Country
- Germany
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2022 - 2023
- Design ID
- #151391
Credits
- Team
- Bernwart A. Engelen, KuKuk Box GmbH and Kim Benjamin Kappenberg, City Wolfsburg
- Image Credits
- KuKuk Box GmbH; KuKuk Box GmbH Video: KuKuk Box GmbH
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- KuKuk Box is a new category of exceptional public playgrounds for children. Made of shipping containers and natural wood, it creates a magical space that invites children to climb, swing, jump and balance. The new look is a perfect combination of industrial design and traditional wood craftsmanship that brings fun and joy to a new generation - mobile and trendy!
- Inspiration
- It all started with the desire to invent an aesthetic temporary playground to make urban open spaces usable for children. For temporary use, foundations could not be used, the playground had to be mobile. The result is this clever concept of a playground container. Its flexibility not only saves time and money - thanks to its quick assembly, it also offers the possibility of inspiring a different audience at a new location.
- Research
- Building a playground out of a ISO 668 shipping container is a complex task. Not only that two totally different types of materials need to be matched (wood and metal react with each other). The construction of playgrounds is subject to strict standards and specifications for safety requirements (e.g. EN 1176, EN 1177, DIN 18034 etc.). At the same time there are strict standards for transporting containers by the International Convention for Save Containers (SCS). In our case, the result is a certified, safe playground facility that is heavily used by the public in a central city shopping area.
- Challenge
- The hardest part of the project was to aline contrary standards of an industrial product with strict norms for a save children's environment into a sophisticated, innovative and inexpensive playground structure that combines sustainability and functionality with pleasing aesthetics.
- Realization and Technology
- We’re totally committed to sustainability. We considered the repurposing of shipping containers and the use of high quality materials that are as natural as possible, to be part of the sustainable use of resources. We used components like corten steel for the standardized containers, European sourced sapwood free robinia wood, an extremely robust, tough, flexible and elastic wood that is ideal for outdoor playground construction, extremely strong Hercules rope, stainless steel fasteners such as screws, threaded rods, washers, nuts, etc. for long durability and high quality, colored plexiglass for an intense color experience.
- Operation and Interaction
- Brought by a truck, folded out, swiveled and put into position, and the new playground is ready! Containers are standardized. This has many advantages, which we use for our play container. Cheap shipping costs, then enormous cost savings such as long planning processes and production times. And the expense of excavation and foundations are completely eliminated. And the children? They love it from the first sight! Our play container magically attracts children, because a container has the image of something forbidden and dangerous - now they can storm it as a unique and trendy play facility.
- Project Duration and Location
- First designs were drawn in December 2021 in Vancouver, Canada. The final design and start of productions was in March 2022 and the setup of the play facility was April 25th, 2022, in Wolfsburg, Germany.
- Specifications
- Overall dimension: 16.650 x 16.100 x 4.150 mm Dimensions of containers: 6.058 x 2.438 x 2.591 mm
- Keywords
- Mobile Playground, Playground Container, Container Playground, Shipping Container, Child, Children, Standard, Spielcontainer, Popup, Temporary, KuKuk Box
